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Batmobile Model Kit

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This is a 19at66 Bmobile resin kit, from a company that I think is long out of business, Scale Replicas of of California. Of course, this is a replica of the George Barris custom car that he built for the TV version of Batman, and based on the Lincoln Futura.

I bought the kit around 1987. At that time, it was the only or one of the few companies making a kit of this famous car. In fact, I had to wait a year before it arrived after ordering.

But eventually it showed up at my door, and wow ! For years I wanted a model kit of this car. The man who owned the company was always nice and honest up front with me, even with the delays. It's a shame if he is out of business.
 
The kit included the body, the interior tub, and vacuum-formed glass/windshields. It also included a steering wheel, and parachutes. The kit came with no chassis and without a lot of other parts. I used a chassis off of a Monogram 1958 Thunderbird kit. Simply because it had the correct wheelbase, without me having to do any cutting length wise. The wheels and tires were out of the parts box.

The show cars at the time had Cragar wheels, which is what I used. But of course, the first two original Barris metal Batmobiles use a "Radir" type wheel, something to that effect.  I cut the small bats used on the center-caps from thin clear acetate. The roll bar I completely made from scratch. I would say that was the most difficult part. The start of it is a thin piece of plastic.

I notched two small holes in the body and slipped the ends of the roll car into those. I think I actually made small tabs in the ends of the plastic and slipped them in. This worked great, because it helped keep the roll bar perfectly in place, and best of all, it never sagged or lost it's shape.

From there I used putty to shape around it and get it to where it needed to be. I also included interior items, such as the bat-phone, the handle for the "bat-chutes', the police lights, and other items. I also made the 3 pipes on the rear deck. I added my own rear chutes, and a flame made from painted cotton.

The Batman figure is a candle.The paint I used is over black automotive primer, and is Testors Gloss Black. The red trim is hand painted with Testors Italian Red.

Off and on, it took me about a year to build.

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